A second Green Party deputy leader is a landlord, despite the party previously claiming she was not, The Telegraph can reveal.
Rachel Millward, a 49-year-old former film festival director who campaigns on a platform to “abolish landlords”, earns £5,000 a year letting rooms in her family home.
Her lodger rents rooms in the six-bedroom East Sussex house, a grand Edwardian property with an outdoor swimming pool set in extensive lawns that Ms Millward and her husband bought for more than £1.6m in 2021.
Same shite different name. Upper middle class women do just have this insistence upon parading to the proles and polloi how they should live.
The Telegraph can also reveal that, for two decades, Ms Millward received a share of the rental income from a house in Oxford, as well as a separate £114,500 lump sum connected to the property in 2022.
Maurice Millward, her late father, bought the three-bedroom Victorian house for her to live in while she studied at Oxford University in the 1990s.
After she graduated, it was let to students, with rental income distributed to her and a relative once or twice a year until 2022.
The house is currently let to students for £2,315 a month. Since Mr Millward’s death in January, the rent has accrued to his estate, from which she is expected to inherit a portion.
Does she house any migrants ?
Nope. She’s also a malevolent bitch in that she campaigns for rapefugee hotels everywhere except in her own village of Crowborough.
Talking of malevolent bitches who do whatever the fuck they want provided – and especially so that – the rules privilege only them, here’s the slutty fishwife herself:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/13/angela-rayner-threatens-cap-on-political-donations/
And I have to admire it. They rig the game in their favour. They bribe, they bully, and they shout and insult (‘Tory scum’ anyone?). And, as with the Millward bitch, with that same look on their faces.
The look which says, ‘But I am good person’.
One thing we really urgently need is a National Pull the Nose of Rachel Millward/the Slutty Fishwife/Polly Toynbee/Yasmin Alibhai Brown/Harriet Harman/Lady Hodge/Duchess Me-Again Day
Did I miss anyone out?
Probably.
She is safe in that there are no longer any hotels in Crowborough. There is however a former TA base currently holding a few tens of migrants with room/plans for a further 500! Were they to move in house prices will fall somewhat, though the plans alone will have had an impact.
Apparently the TA buildings had to be upgraded to be made good enough for the migrants. Apparently they need better accommodation than our troops.
Not at all uncommon when migrants are offered housing in Service accommodation, and it’s legally blocked because it’s “unfit for habitation” (good enough for HM Forces, but inadequate for homeless migrants)
I demand that all Grists should be castrated, hung drawn and quartered until very dead!
I can’t think of a nice cuddly name for the political party, though. Extinction Sublime? CHQ+? Teris Balsoff?
On the subject of the greens they’ve just published their health policy which will be submitted to their next conference and it’s a doozy.
As anyone look at the Greens would expect its full of transgender and race stuff and concludes:
https://spectator.com/article/veganism-and-hormone-therapy-for-all-the-greens-plan-for-the-nhs/
And this is before they get to their conference and allow individual members to add their own bonkers ideas.
But you’ve got to admit that Roland Rat (real name: David Paulden) is a terrific political hustler. If he doesn’t end up in prison, he’ll go far.
In fact, I’d put a fiver on him going far, then going to prison, then going further.
If there were no private landlords where would people who move temporarily for work live? Hotels or council houses?
Stop asking inconvenient questions, wrecker! Gulag for you.
They don’t state they want to abolish private landlords. They state they want to abolish landlords, full stop.
State workhouses of course. With higher grades for senior bureaucrats.
There shall be a local barracks for workers on secondment in each commune; three separate buildings: one for single males, one for single females and one for married couples. Workers on arrival in a commune shall report to Party Headquarters and will be allocated a room.
Can’t read the article but does it say if she uses the “Rent a room” allowance to receive the lodger’s rent tax-free? If so is that classed as tax avoidance from a leftie perspective?
No one is going to know that other than her accountant, HMRC and the woman herself. And as she isn’t in Reform, none of those is going to let on.
Be a shame if it burnt down then….
Hypocrisy & Oxford graduates are inseparable..
Your remark says more about your evidential standards than Oxford graduates.
For centuries, Brits have been telling people around the world how they should be living. Y’all have to play Empire at home now.
Whereas nowadays Yanks just kill them, in huge numbers, for no good reason at all. I’m not sure that’s an improvement.
You say that as though killing Brits were a bad thing. :-p
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190th_Fighter_Squadron,_Blues_and_Royals_friendly_fire_incident#Web
To some extent. We gave benighted foreigners reasonably uncorrupted civil administration, the absence of the suttee cult, the world’s lingua franca, representative government, the abolition of the African-American slave trade and afternoon tea.
Did I miss anything and is what is the problem with any of that?
But the question is; did they actually ask for any of those?
Sometimes, yes. I mean, to take just one example, the Egyptians got us in (despite their being part of the Ottoman empire) because they were broke and could not govern themselves.
But, tbh, I don’t care. Emerging from that part of us which is puritan and evangelistic we abolished the African-American slave trade, at great cost to ourselves.
And what do we get for that toil? ‘Reparations’ demands and a ruling class which, if it not ejected soon, will give in to those demands precisely because it remains puritan and evangelical.
So I am sympathetic to the idea that we as the superior nation ought to have let the rest of the world starve in slavery and misery. Not because that would have been good for them, but because it might have been better for us.
But if you’re expecting me to apologise for abolishing suttee or slavery, then you’ll have a long wait.
And General Gordon in his first trip to the Soudan abolished slavery and hanged a lot of the slavers.
And of course there is that famous speech by General Harold Corbett “Sue me if you, like but if you practise Sooty, I shall Sweep you away.”
Wince.
Through experience of other cultures, what I’ve learned is they have their own way of doing things & you mess with that at your peril. With the slave trade, only the British thought it was wrong. It was certainly normal in Africa. Still is in some parts. The slaves probably didn’t like being slaves but it was the system. If they hadn’t been slaves they’d likely have kept their own slaves. The French were selling the French to galley slavery in the C18th. The Spanish & the Portuguese didn’t have any problem with it.
My g/f is a descendant of slaves. She thinks the idea of reparations is ludicrous. That was then, this is now. A different world. She prefers being Brasilain to African.
It’s only from the Brit colonies, including the US & Canada (maybe Aus & NZ & the Irish still bleating about the famine), that you get this sort of shit. Everyone else got over it. You do it to yourselves. The holier than thou Anglo-Saxon attitude. You wonder they take advantage of it?
You do it to yourselves. The holier than thou Anglo-Saxon attitude. You wonder they take advantage of it?
Norp.
OK. Then explain why reparations are only a big issue in the Anglo-sphere
I already did:
Emerging from that part of us which is puritan and evangelistic we abolished the African-American slave trade, at great cost to ourselves.
And what do we get for that toil? ‘Reparations’ demands and a ruling class which, if it not ejected soon, will give in to those demands precisely because it remains puritan and evangelical.
Hence, again as I said, I do not wonder why people take advantage of it.
For the same reasons you abolished it. And why you’re debating it here. The Anglosphere has inherited that puritan & evangelistic & with it their obsession about guilt. These accusations & demands for reparations wouldn’t work on the Spanish. They wouldn’t even debate the subject. And entering a debate with someone concedes that person has a debating point. A Spaniard wouldn’t see there was anything to debate. How can he be held responsible for something happened generations ago & he’s unlikely to have any familiar link to?
Not sure what your point is, but I think I have repeatedly made it clear, on this thread and others, that I don’t think the ‘reparations’ demands are made in good faith or that there is any merit in telling these shakedown artists to fuck off.
there is any merit in not telling these shakedown artists to fuck off.
As others have alluded to on other threads…. The Arkell vs Pressdram response seems apposite
a) Rubbish. Doesn’t reflect how Empire worked most of the time at all.
b) Crappy American popular culture and Californian social justice are busily destroying western civilisation as we speak
Gotta give someone else a chance. My money is on a Chinese empire later in the century.
Top Nation. ((c) Sellers and Yeatman).
Actually, their Belt and Road Initiative seems to me to be similar to John Company’s enterprises.
Startrek? Like much of US TV & films, everything is set in suburban California
Bigot.
https://directlinenews.substack.com/p/star-treks-prime-directive-and-the
Too long to cut and paste. It explains the relevance of the Prime Directive to today’s world.
I believe Gene L. Coon had British imperialism in mind when he wrote the Prime Directive. The Directive says don’t interfere with local cultures. Imperialist Brits egotistically believe* ** their ways are better, and the locals would be better off if they adopted them. Locals who had evolved their cultures over centuries, yet the Brits knew what was better for them. As Ms Millward believes today.
Imperialists pushed the law of unintended consequences to the extreme.
*Present tense. Even today, Brits are pushing sub-Saharan states to implement wind/solar power. Not only is it grossly inappropriate for those states, it is inappropriate for UK, too.
**COP30 was British imperialism.
It isn’t a belief that Western Civilisation is superior to any other that has existed in the history of humanity, it’s a demonstrable fact. Take your moral relativism and shove it.
Lady Wyndham (Ursula Jeans): It’s easy for you to mock us. We’re used to that. Half the world mocks us – and half the world is only civilised because we have made it so.
North West Frontier (1959)
Western Civilization is NOT superior to Japanese culture in Tokyo. It is not superior in Lima. Your ego is central to the problem.
Pre-Western Japanese culture led to the Nanjing massacre and the death marches. Pre-Western Peruvian civilisation involved a lot of human sacrifice. Lima today is basically an offshoot of the Spanish colonies. Japan today is a product of the US Marshall plan.
‘Ego’ is inherent in the belief that Empires and Colonialism were uniquely Western or British. It’s much like slavery. Before we came along, everyone continually fought their neighbours. Everyone murdered, enslaved, and tortured. Everyone sought to replace the cultures of those they invaded and defeated.
Everyone knows what was considered best in life. “To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!”
The British initially were simply better at it. Yes, we were bastards, but so was everyone we conquered – usually even more so. And then wealth and victory gave people the security and luxury to develop liberalism and more benign social attitudes, and they developed ideas of free trade, freeing the slaves, political freedoms, and so on that fed back exponentially to propel Western civilisation to the richest, most powerful, and nicest-to-live-in civilisation humanity has ever known.
The British invented most of it. The USA with its Constitution was quite possibly British liberalism’s finest invention.
The “whataboutery” is simply pointing out that we’re all not so different from everyone else. We’re still humans. We still do a lot of the same stupid and nasty things human civilisations have always done. The USA is just another British colony, with precisely the same attitudes to foreign cultures. American Exceptionalism. America First. Make America Great Again. It’s a self-governing part of the British Empire, still going, and still winning.
Yes, Western civilisation *is* superior. And the proof that it is superior is that it no longer needs to spread by invasion and imposition – it spreads by choice. Given a free choice and direct and personal knowledge of the alternatives, people in other countries want to become more Western.
The Prime Directive was written by someone with no idea how truly horrible “the normal and healthy development of alien life and culture” could be. ‘Normal’, yes. Culturally interfering and being interfered with is perfectly normal. ‘Healthy’ is a value judgement – which we make from the perspective of our own culture. We interfere just by being here, by offering an example, and an alternative. The goal of the Prime Directive is to block the spread of freedom.
It’s like the Monroe Doctrine never existed. Or the Perry Expedition. Or the League of Nations. Or the Dawes Plan. Or the Young Plan. Or the Morgenthau Plan. Or the US occupations of Japan and Germany. Or the Vietnam War.
And on and on.
Not saying we played no role in any of that. But, stones and glass houses, dear boy. Stones and glass houses.
Non sequitur whataboutary.
Non seq? Non.
Whataboutery, yes. What of it?
Oh, btw, what are you doing on an Englishman’s blog lecturing English people on the subject of how to live?
Do you have a point? The internet is global. I’m providing history lessons to the world. If you have better information, I’d like to see it.
I’m providing history lessons to the world.
Are you all right?
Established 13 colonies in North America (in addition to the Northern Territories), the residents of which continued the tradition. Locals still be(ing) damned.
More whataboutery.
Largely balls. John Company was careful not to interfere with local cultures: for instance they banned Christian missionaries from India. Suttee, thugee, and slavery are the counterexamples often mentioned because they were the only major exceptions.
Gamecock. I’m not disagreeing with you. I feel much the same about Brits as you do.
But I think you ignore the common inhertance. It’s only necessary to read your Declaration of Independence.
More whataboutery.
Define “normal and healthy development”. Who gets to decide what’s healthy?
Define “handling such advantages wisely”. Who gets to decide what’s wise?
The British. Obviously.
The missing part of the conversation is colonialism. Brits were not just heavy into imperialism, they colonized. India was under British control for a hundred years. That they were allowed certain things is not a defense.
Yes, that’s the definition of landlord. But 5k per year is tiny. I assume that’s a closet.
Or it’s a real sweetheart deal, when the whole property was 1.6 million 5 years ago. I assume the housing market hasn’t crashed.
The student housing is more relevant. I wonder why they led with the other?
She’s only receiving a portion of the rents.
, it was let to students, with rental income distributed to her
Okay, distributed to her. So she was never technically the landlord.
, her late father, bought the three-bedroom Victorian house for her to live in while she studied at Oxford University in the 1990s
I’d be willing to put down some hard cash that it wasn’t bought in her name.
. Since Mr Millward’s death in January, the rent has accrued to his estate
Oh, no bet there then..
Would you put anything of value in the name of an Oxford undergraduate? No doubt he knew it was a lunacy factory.
Of course not. My mother sold her house a while ago for a tidy sum, it turned out to be for a young couple and a (fairly extravagant) present from her father to the newly-weds. But he signed all the paperwork. So… that’s going to be fun when he pops his clogs and they find out that their home is part of his estate.
She then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Oxford in 1999 before completing a master’s programme in gender and development from the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town in 2001…She then founded the Birds Eye View film festival with Pinny Grylls in 2002 to showcase films made by women…In August 2006, Millward was nominated as a “world changing woman” by The Guardian…
Pass the sickbag…
Every accusation is a confession.